What is Sails

• Real-time MVC framework built on Node.
• Developed by Mike McNeil with the support of Treeline and Balderdash.
• Convention-over-configuration philosophy.
• Made to mimic other MVC frameworks like Rails

Express & Socket.IO

• Express for handling HTTP requests
• Socket.IO for managing WebSockets.
  • Resourceful PubSub
  • Client side library sails.io.js
• low-level access to these are available.

Waterline - powerful ORM.

• MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and local disk.
• support for each are available  via sails-adapters.
• model validation supported 

Asset Pipeline

• Grunt is included by default
• LESS, SASS, Stylus, CoffeeScript, JST, Jade, Handlebars
• Gulp? Overriding Grunt is available via sails-hooks

Extending Sails

• Generators
  • sails new <app name>
  • sails generate api user
  • sails generate controller <controller name> [actions]
• Adapters
  • sails-mysql
  • sails-mongo
  • sails-redis
• Hooks
  • sails-auth
  • Waterlock
  • sails-hook-validation
  • sails-generate-bower
  • sails-generate-new-gulp (not recommended w/ 0.11)

Other

• Built in Internationalization
• includes a test suite with Mocha
• Blueprint API
• Command Line Interface

Sample User Demo

public demo link:

http://192.241.247.80/user

repo:

https://github.com/nmccartney/sailsUser